It's not just a movie.
This is also a flowing oil painting,
and a comforting prose that fades into the heart and memory of the father-son relationship.
The sun shines through the gaps in the tree tops on the broad Trout River, and the river surface is flickering with fine golden light, and the thrown fishing line draws a beautiful arc in the air, slowly falling. Into the river... All this was captured by the camera and restored on the screen, which is beautiful enough to break the heart.
This is the first paragraph of the film introduction, which is exactly what I want.
"Norman, you love to write novels, and one day when you grow up, you're going to write stories about your family, and then you'll understand what happened and why."
This is how Norman recalls him at the beginning of the film . What my father once said, I didn't realize its weight at the time, because I was attracted by the melodious sound of bagpipes that followed, accompanied by old black and white photos, and old photos. On those young people, the once young people.
Then there are the beautiful landscapes of Montana and the life of the Normans, but I quickly ignore those beautiful landscapes because it seems a little inferior to Butterfly. The scenery in "Butterfly" is like a fairy tale, perhaps because of the stubborn, quirky and cute 8-year-old girl, its scenery is also much brighter; the scenery in "Big River" is different, it is a simple and wild nature , maybe because it is close to the frigid zone, the green is not very lively, and it has a feeling of Russian scenery. I'm starting to think that the two-hour movie might be a bit long, and I'm starting to feel the rawness of the dialogue between the Norman family, especially the father and son, which is a standard image of a strict father.
However, I don't know why, but I want to watch it. Maybe I'm just curious and want to see where the story that flows leisurely like a river will go.
The trivial story is like someone talking to you about the family, and it touches you every now and then, such as Norman's small conversation with his mother after he returned from college six years after leaving home.
"Mom, have I lost weight?" Norman asked.
The mother looked at her son with relief, smiled and shook her head, then asked, "Norman, am I old?" - I don't think I'll ever forget the tone and manner in which this mother said this, how much it was Unique tone, that feeling, as if his mother is asking questions.
At that local picnic party, Norman's younger brother, Paul, greeted his mother in such a natural and touching way that he actually picked up her mother and turned it around twice. The lovely expression on the mother's face after she was put down was again. It's so funny, it makes people smile, and the heart is full of warm feeling.
Norman's pursuit of Ji Si is full of clumsiness and embarrassment. Seeing his embarrassing encounters one after another, people can't help but feel a deep pity and understanding. Sincere love may be clumsy. And Brad Pitt's younger brother, Paul, is always so enthusiastic, always so free, and sometimes makes people laugh. He has inherited his father's fishing skills, and he is a brilliant fisherman. .
But in all these small everyday things, there seems to be a mysterious power that exists in Norman's eyes that are always full of tension, making people unable to relax completely and enjoy this with a relaxed attitude. In the movie, until the end of the movie, when I heard the monologue that made me cry, I suddenly realized what that mysterious force was.
At the end of the film, in the big river where the three Norman father and son have fished countless times, Norman, in his old age, stands alone in the river where the soup flows, recalling the scenes of his childhood with Paul. , his old and calm face was facing the river, at this time, a monologue sounded:
"When I was young, all the people I loved died, including Ji Si, but in my heart, they are still with me ."
Suddenly I remembered what a philosopher said: Even if an old man and a young man say the same thing, the weight is different. Yes, Norman's simple words weighed heavily on me.
His parents, Paul, and Jasper all left him one by one, and now Norman is the only one left, and he is getting old. He often went fishing alone in the river, despite the vehement objections of his friends, because in Norman's opinion--"When I was alone in the water, all the memories came to my mind, and all I heard was the Big Black, which played A tune of four beats four..."
With this river, Norman could feel the breath of his relatives, which cannot be replaced by any friends. The so-called nostalgia is actually the yearning for the relatives in the hometown, and the review of the life footprints left by oneself and the relatives.
The mysterious power of death will always be shrouded in warm family affection, but it can only take away the lives of relatives, and the voices and smiles of relatives will always remain in our hearts and be constantly reviewed, just like being a priest. His father said the same thing in his last sermon: "We love our family deeply, although we don't know each other completely, but we all love with all our hearts." - Although this father is not good at expressing his feelings for his son, no one One would suspect that he was deeply in love with his two sons, especially Paul, who left before him. The passage of time and the aging of the years have made this family love a heavy force, supporting the living people to live firmly. Yes, family love is beyond death.
Life is like a river that keeps flowing, galloping forward. But family love will not, even if we have resisted it, even if we have ignored it, even if we are clumsy to express it, even if we have no chance to express it, but family love will treat all this with tolerance, because this is the real Love.
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